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Old Stranger: Poems

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by Joan Larkin
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Availability:In StockContributor:Joan LarkinPublish date:2024-08-13Pages:100
Language:EnglishPublisher:Alice James BooksISBN-13:9781949944648ISBN-10:1949944646UPC:9781949944648Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, PlacesSize:8.40 x 5.30 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC9ME3M5V0
In this sixth collection from a beloved American poet, the reader is asked to reflect on the stranger within others--and ourselves.

The speaker in Old Stranger: Poems begs to be seen and known, even when faced with her aging and her own mortality. Even as we age, there's a looming space for the mysterious stranger we embody without realizing it. Do we ever truly know who we are?

In the book, familiarity takes so many forms, as does the stranger: sometimes the stranger is a loved one, sometimes it is the speaker to themselves, and other times it's one who might seem like a stranger in the poem but turns out to be recognizable in one or more ways.

We are looking back, but at the same time we are so much in the present, there's an in-betweenness of the temporal that is so dreamlike and delicious. The poems are suspended and feel weightless even as their subjects are weighty and, at times, dark.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Alice James BooksISBN-13:9781949944648ISBN-10:1949944646UPC:9781949944648Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, PlacesSize:8.40 x 5.30 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC9ME3M5V0

Joan Larkin's newest book is Old Stranger, her sixth collection of poems, published by Alice James Books in August 2024. She is also the author of five previous collections of poetry, including Blue Hanuman (2014); My Body: New and Selected Poems (2007), which received the Audre Lorde Award from the Publishing Triangle; Lambda Literary Award winner Cold River (1997); and Housework (1975). With Jaime Manrique, Larkin translated Sor Juana's Love Poems, a bilingual edition of Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz's poetry (1997). Her prose works include If You Want What We Have: Sponsorship Meditations (1998) and& Glad Day: Daily Meditations for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People (1998). Her plays include The AIDS Passion, The Living, and Wiretap.


Larkin co-founded Out & Out Books during the 1970s feminist literary explosion and has co-edited four anthologies, including Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time. A lifelong teacher, she has served on the faculties of Brooklyn College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Smith College, among others. Larkin has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She received the 2011 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.



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